Take Back the Land

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" "We're asking them to turn over the property to the community whose tax dollars are funding what they are doing," says Z! Haukeness of Operation Welcome Home, citing billions of dollars in bailouts to mortgage lenders....

"Housing is a human right, no matter what income, no matter what rental history," Haukeness says. Activists say they plan more "liberations" of more vacant foreclosed property. The squat action is modeled on "Take Back the Land," a Miami-born movement to seize vacant foreclosed homes for housing for the homeless that has spread to such other cities as Boston and Philadelphia but is new to Dane County. In some cases, the actions have resulted in properties being turned over to affordable housing agencies, reports say." (http://shareable.net/blog/a-shareable-vision-for-housing)